TechnipFMC Office in Krakow
TechnipFMC Office – technical space for an engineer
The new TechnipFMC office takes us to the world of water stories. It influences emotions and imagination in such a way, that it is really hard to give up thinking about this unique place. How was it possible to create such a space on the four floors of the Krakow office building, that reflects the ambience of the underwater depth and sea associated with the TechnipFMC profession?
Krakow – development Eldorado
Recently, the capital of Małopolska has been called a development Eldorado. A new place of this type on the map of Krakow is the Podium Park complex, commissioned in 2020, which has BREEAM certificates at the highest possible level – Outstanding. It is undoubtedly one of the most modern and ecological office building projects in Poland. It is the complex of three interconnected 11-storey buildings with a total leasable area of over 50 thousand sq.m. It is in one of the towers of Podium Park that the four floors of TechnipFMC office are located.
Underwater and on the surface
The main design idea of the office is closely related to the activities of TechnipFMC. It is a concern with global reach, providing technological solutions for the energy industry, specializing in innovative solutions of oil and natural gas extraction.
– Bearing in mind this client’s need, we decided that the design office would refer to what TechnipFMC does, i.e. designing machinery for oil and gas extraction from the seabed. Therefore, we have designated four levels: the first floor is the underwater space, the second is the water level, the third and fourth floors are decks of watercrafts used in marine operations. Our client liked our concept very much – explains arch. Konrad Krusiewicz, founder of The Design Group.
– TechnipFMC is a world leader in energy projects, technologies, systems and services. The new office in Podium Park contains many details that refer to our installations, tools, materials and the way engineers work. We would call it such „flavors” that are noticed by our employees from Krakow, but also from global projects located in different parts of the world – explain Agnieszka Radomska-Przedlacka and Dariusz Włodarczyk from the client’s project team.
Technically and roughly
The most prominent feature is recreating the climate of TechnipFMC floating equipment – we have here uncovered installations and cabling, industrial lamps, trusses, containers and yellow technical barriers. There is also piping running along the internal facade of the building in the void zone, from the second to the fourth floor. Another interesting solution is covering the walls with painted trapezoidal metal sheet, or spreading expanded metal on the ceilings. In the space of the Krakow office, there is also a real recycled container door.
Functional arrangement
The TechnipFMC office in Krakow has several unique solutions created especially by architects from The Design Group. Among them it is definitely worth mentioning the so-called void, i.e. a free space integrating floors 2, 3 and 4 and connected by glazing with floor 1. This original TDG idea allows you to look from the first floor to the other levels of the office, almost as we can observe the world while under water.
– The event space consists of four conference rooms equipped with mobile walls that allow any arrangement of this place and a small warm up and cool down zone. According to research by Herman Miller, this division is useful for both personality types: extroverts and introverts – says architect Marta Konarska from The Design Group.
In brand colors
On each floor of the office (except the first one) there is a kitchen and a coffee point with a different color of the ceiling – blue, red and purple. They refer to the brand colors of TechnipFMC. Red, blue and purple, which dominate the company’s logotype, have been supplemented with raw concrete resin.
Special solutions
The already mentioned unique arrangement solution located in the Void zone is an installation made of small glass balls, designed by Dariusz Włodarczyk in cooperation with Plus Lighting. It represents the so-called Subsea Tree, the company’s flag product, which is deposited on the seabed, used to control the extraction of the raw material.
– We had the pleasure to participate in an extraordinary project, where we delivered several thousand balls made according to an individual pattern made of blown glass. The whole thing was illuminated with framing spotlights so that the light brings out the depth of this project – explains Michał Paduch from Plus Lighting.
Design Team: The Design Group | Client: TechnipFMC | Size: approx. 65,875 sqft | Year: 2021 | Location: Krakow, Poland | Photos: Fotomohito
